First impression of the work place... pretty local and the surprising thing is the crowd is actually quite old...with colleague that is already a grandmother so you can imagine how old is my colleague. The good thing is i don't get to interact with them alot but only the usual hi and bye. My immediate team is actually young with my colleague only a year older than me but already a mum to a baby girl. My immediate boss is on reservist so i still didn't get to talk with him except via email. My big boss is those typical sales man which is good with words so will see how things goes with him but at least he is friendly enough to bring me out for lunch on my first day. As for GM, she looks very smiley and friendly but i heard that she actually sacked people without any signs beforehand. Hence, that's the scary part. I guess i will still have to monitor and observe for a while more since i believe all the old birds are all quite political. Furthermore, I also heard that they don't really like the Marketing team since the people don't normally stay very long in the role and hence they like to interfere with the jobs alot. So i shall be careful and lie low until i have better clarity of the culture.
How am i feeling after being in the role for 1 week? To be frank, I am actually a bit worried because often i feel lost and not confident. I guess that is because it's been a while since i was doing something related to marketing and i not very familiar with the car industry. I feel that my learning curve is a bit slow...not sure if it is because there is no clear transition or not.. I often feel that i need to be spoon feed. Hence, i am kind of worried that they might find me slow and like a fresh grad that need to be spoon feed. Hopefully, my confidence can start picking up and so people wldn't feel that they made the wrong decision of hiring me.
Enough of my insecurity... the good thing is i manage to change my working hours so it is now official that mon, tue, thur, fri - 830 - 630pm and wed: 830 - 530pm. Alternatively, if i manage to work longer hours on wed then i can have an additional day of 830 - 6pm. Yipeee! This mean i wldn't be missing or rushing for any of my post work gatherings...not that there is a lot but the feeling that working hrs are long make the day so dreadful.
That's all for now. Look for more update from me abt my job since i am responsible for events marketing and CRM...a profile that is missing from my portfolio so i need to survive thru and my marketing portfolio will be complete...
Interesting Quote:
"It is always easier to blame others and we forget to look back and see how fortunate we are."
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Congrats! I've not been long in the industry, but feel free to buzz me if you need any info and I'll try my best!
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